Ian Round is The Daily Memphian’s state government reporter based in Nashville. He came to Tennessee from Maryland, where he reported on local politics for Baltimore Brew. He earned a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland in December 2019.
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While neither side is completely happy, the law allowing Tennessee gun owners to carry openly with or without a permit sailed through the legislature — and with relatively little pushing from gun advocacy groups.
In the war against opioid overdose deaths, Tennessee is winning one battle — doctors are prescribing pain pills at much lower rates — but still losing other battles.
A bill allowing student athletes in Tennessee to make money from their brand has passed both chambers of the Tennessee General Assembly with little opposition, and it is now headed to Gov. Bill Lee.
Despite major voting law reforms in some states, such as Georgia, few major changes have been made so far in Tennessee.
Police would be required to record their interrogations of juveniles under a bill passed unanimously by the Tennessee Senate Wednesday, April 14.
The CROWN Act, which bans discrimination against people for wearing natural hairstyles such as braids, locs or twists, was delayed Tuesday, April 13 in the House Commerce Committee.
Three hours after a school shooting in Knoxville, the Tennessee House of Representatives decided Monday, April 12, to delay a bill making the state a “Second Amendment Sanctuary.”
A bill in the Tennessee General Assembly would create harsher penalties for paid protesters and outside agitators, but opponents say the issues addressed by the legislation aren’t legitimate concerns.
Efforts are afoot to remove or ease a Tennessee requirement that child support payments be current in order to vote.
Thousands of Tennesseans convicted of certain felonies would regain the right to vote under a proposal from two Nashville Democrats in the General Assembly.
Victims of human trafficking would be allowed to use force in self-defense under a bipartisan bill making its way through the Tennessee General Assembly.
The two bills go next to the House Finance, Ways and Means Committee.
The effort to remove the judge who ruled last year that the COVID-19 pandemic was a valid reason for Tennesseans to vote by mail failed Tuesday, March 9, in a House subcommittee.
Demand for child care far exceeds supply in Tennessee, but a bill passed Monday, March 8, by the state Senate could give state employees more options.
A proposed constitutional amendment will let Tennessee voters choose the secretary of state rather than legislators — but not until 2030.
A Tennessee Senate committee on Tuesday, Feb. 23, advanced a bill preventing cities and counties from requiring police officers, firefighters and emergency medical professionals to live where they work.
Business owners would be able to vote in elections where the business property is located, even if the owner doesn’t live in the same place as the business, under a bill being considered by the Tennessee General Assembly.
School superintendents and local public health officials may lose some of their power under a bill that passed by a party-line vote in the Tennessee Senate Monday, Feb. 22.
Democratic lawmakers proposed a package of legislation Thursday, Feb. 18, that would increase teacher pay and bring more nurses, counselors and social workers into Tennessee schools.
Lee defends his administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but Democrats including Raumesh Akbari of Memphis say the state has not invested in what is important to Tennessee families. Related stories
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Tennesseans will be vaccinated against COVID-19 faster beginning early next week after President Joe Biden announced a massive purchase of doses, an increased weekly allocation to states and other moves to manage the pandemic.
Intent on returning kids to classrooms, reversing months of “learning loss” and improving literacy, the Tennessee General Assembly approved a handful of bills Thursday and Friday, Jan. 21-22, and $110 million in spending.